The Kingdom of East Francia was established in 843 following the Treaty of Verdun as a division of the Frankish Empire. It expanded significantly over 200 years through Crusades, conquests, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Germany is today a first-rank power: rich, strong, and efficiently governed. But just over 200 years ago, most of its current ...

Peter H. Wilson, Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016), 941 pp., $39.95. IT SAYS something about the power of historical memory that, 132 ...

Adolf Hitler in a gaberdine pranced into hoary, high-spired Nuremberg last week for seven days of such pageantry and triumph as might befit the coronation of a Holy Roman Emperor. To heighten the ...

When Voltaire said “The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire,” he highlighted a quirk of our ...

The world of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is a dangerous one of politics, passions, and precarious alliances. And to fully appreciate the nuanced power plays that Thomas Cromwell must navigate ...